Decorative Alphabets

A Coloring Book of Letters & Borders

Part creative outlet, part sourcebook, Decorative Alphabets bridges play and practice. Learn new hand lettering styles by tracing the exemplars, or simply enjoy coloring the intricate illustrations. The alphabets are inspired by type specimen books of old, with styles including Deco, Western, midcentury, geometric, and three-dimensional.

Pages from the Decorative Alphabets Coloring Book by Molly Suber Thorpe, both colored and uncolored, on a yellow background

Inside you’ll find more than 50 alphabets and decorated drop cap letters, each with an ornate border design. The designs provide a meditative outlet, but they’re also a book for lettering artists in need of inspiration, structure, or fresh ideas. Color for fun. Color to learn.

Decorate Alphabets Coloring book open spread with purple scissors laid on top to illustrate that pages can easily be cut out

I made this for lettering lovers of all ages. The pages are printed single-sided so you don’t have to worry about ink bleeds, and the generous margins make it easy to cut them out for tracing, sharing, or display.

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A spread of sample pages from Decorative Alphabets Coloring Book by Molly Suber Thorpe showing fun alphabets and individual drop cap letters

Colored capital G from Decorative Alphabets Coloring Book by Molly Suber Thorpe

Colored geometric alphabet with blue marker from Decorative Alphabets Coloring Book by Molly Suber Thorpe

Intricately colored drop cap O from Decorative Alphabets Coloring Book by Molly Suber Thorpe

Child’s hands coloring an ornate alphabet from Decorative Alphabets

Colored capital A from a vintage Western alphabet in Decorative Alphabets Coloring Book by Molly Suber Thorpe

Spines of two copies of Decorative Alphabets Coloring Book by Molly Suber Thorpe showing that the book is softcover with a glossy cover

Want a closer look? Here’s a tour of what’s inside:

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